A case of retroperitoneal teratoma.

Lee, Jong Hun; Choi, Suk Jin; Choi, Sun Keun; Kim, Lucia; Song, Eun Seop; Jang, Jin Ho; Park, Jee Hyun; Song, Yun Seob; Koh, Seung Kwon

Case Report

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2004;47(12):2506-2510.
Published online December 1, 2004.

A case of retroperitoneal teratoma.

Jong Hun Lee, Suk Jin Choi, Sun Keun Choi, Lucia Kim, Eun Seop Song, Jin Ho Jang, Jee Hyun Park, Yun Seob Song, Seung Kwon Koh

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.
²Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.
³Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.
⁴Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyong, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Retroperitoneal teratomas, which were found occasionally in children but very rarely in adults, occur mainly at the upper pole of left kidney and diagnosed after they grow very enormously. Authors experienced one case of about 20 cm-size retroperitoneal teratoma, which occurred to a 30-year-old postpartum woman at the left upper pole of kidney.

Key Words: Retroperitoneal teratoma, Postpartum adult woman